Re: Opinions on "ultra durable" Gigabyte boards?
Lately I have found that I have only purchased solely gigabyte motherboards for all of my builds. So far I have the GA-P55A-UD3, the GA-P55-UD3R, and the GA-EP43T-UD3L, they are all rock solid and reliable, not to mention one of them survived being shipped to me with the processor (and an enormous heatsink attached to it and 8gb memory in the dimm slots) in a usps flat rate box with only regular bubble wrap around it. I was quite surprised that it didn't die from ESD or physical damage from not being in the original box....
lightingguy32
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Last Activity: 01-02-2020, 09:48 PM
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Location: vestal, ny
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Re: Dell XPS 600 SLI Nvidia Chipset power issue
It could be bad CPU VRM caps, I have an XPS600 and currently it is still running, but 2 capacitors (aluminum electrolytic) that are close to a DIMM slot have burst. All of the caps that I see that are near the CPU socket are solid polymers (nichicons possibly). My powersupply seems to be ok though. Any thoughts as to weather I need to replace all caps on the board or just those that are aluminum electrolytic?Leave a comment:
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Re: Are panasonic FC/FM series high temp enough?
Thanks for the info. When I get around to it, I will probably post pictures of this board with before and after shotsLeave a comment:
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Are panasonic FC/FM series high temp enough?
Are the temperature ratings on panasonic FC/FM capacitors high enough (105C) for use in motherboards? I just want to double check before I embark on my first recap project on an old socket 478 Jetway motherboard which only has 2 blown caps, but I don't trust the rest to be ok so I am replacing about 27 of them (majority are around the Vcore area and the rest scattered about the board) -
Re: Dell 745.....Here we go again!
Later batches of the SX 280 aren't affected, just like the late batch of GX270s that my school used to have. Also it appears that the power supply issue only effects the early run GX620 and 745 minitowers, I have yet to see any problems with the desktop or small form factor units we haveLeave a comment:
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Re: Dell 745.....Here we go again!
In my travels I have only seen sporadic failures of optiplex 745 and 755 minitower powersupply units (at this point only 2 within the last 2 and a half years while working over the summer as a computer repair/IT admin at a state university that has about ~2500 dells across campus, most of which are 755, 745 or GX620)Leave a comment:
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Re: Intel D965PERL Motherboard
I too have one of these boards, but I don't see any caps that are venting to the point where electrolyte is visible or the vent has bulged. However, I have noticed an increasing number seem to have a cloudy white substance (very very light coating though) on them. Is that electrolyte?
The big symptom with this board is that I can get it to post, but when it tries to boot XP it blue screens immediately even before you can see the boot up screenLeave a comment:
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Re: Dell OptiPlex GX270 - multiple bad cap failures
I don't think that would be possible. Physically, yes it will work, but CPU socket and graphics bus wise, the GX280 is an LGA775 socket, the 270 a socket 478 and I believe that the gx280 has a PCI-Express graphics slot and the 270 an AGP.
Where I work, if anyone mentions the models GX270 (or some GX280s depending on how old they are) we reply back: Surplus them....Leave a comment:
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Re: I hate these XPS desktops!
Which XPS system is this?Leave a comment:
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Re: Flaky Dell Precision 670
check the one electrolytic capacitor that is on the VRM controller card, it is usually also bad.Leave a comment:
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Re: Dell GX620
What I encountered over the summer is that many of the GX620s that we have reimaged have been tagged as having their power supply units replaced. Also from reading online, there seems to be a problem with several caps in the GX 620 PSU that dell has not acknowledged, though from reading I can gather thousands of units (mostly the minitower psu (305w) and desktop PSU) are affected.Leave a comment:
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Re: Dell Motherboard replaced caps still no boot
Board #2 has a bad PSU, this is a common issue with the Early GX280, and early GX620s, I just did my summer triage of all machines in a lab that are GX620s, and more then half have had PSUs replaced, this year we are replacing one more.Leave a comment:
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Re: Post your system.......
Primary system:
Dell Latitude E6500.
1440*900 WXGA+ LED backlit screen
LED backlit keyboard
Core 2 Duo P8700 (2.53gHz/3M L2 Cache)
250GB SATA hard drive (7200RPM)
Nvidia Quadro NVS 160M
2GB DDR2-800mhz
DVD +/-RW 8x
Desktop:
Optiplex 760 Minitower
Core 2 Duo 3.00ghz
160GB hard drive
16x DVD +/- RW optical drive
2GB DDR2-800mhz
ATI Radeon 3450(?)
old NEC Multisync 18" LCDLeave a comment:
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Re: Dell GX620
What form factor are those GX620 machines? I work as a volunteer computer tech for both a local university (which has hundreds of GX620s all mini tower) and my high school (which has about 200 some GX620 desktop form factor machines)Leave a comment:
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